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Messner, Dirk

Dirk Messner is director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

European aid to the MENA region after the Arab uprisings: a window of opportunity missed

Bodenstein, Thilo / Mark Furness (2023)
External Publications

How digitalisation and technology empower women working on the ocean and along the Amazon River

Hägele, Ramona / Juliana Arcoverde Mansur (2023)
The Current Column, 19. June 2023

Digitalisation and technologisation can enable women to work in a more sustainable way and promote the involvement of women in marine science and sustainable water resources management.

Policy (in)coherence in Germany’s Energiewende

Bonn, 19. June 2023

Background Key to meeting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Agenda and the Paris Agreement in Germany is the energy transition – dubbed the Energiewende - for which several policy plans and packages have been envisioned, proposed and passed into law. One of the most controversial has been the Coal Exit Law, which, enacted in May 2020, set…

Municipal development policy in Germany: current trends, challenges and recommendations for further promotion

Beck, Andrea / Martin Bruder / Eva Dick / Verena Gantner / Klaus Hermanns / Johannes Schmitt / Christopher Wingens (2023)
External Publications

Press release: Prosperous but not healthy? Healthy living on a healthy planet

Healthy living on a healthy planet’ – this is the title and vision of the WBGU’s new flagship report, which will be presented today to Steffi Lemke, Germany’s Federal Environment Minister, and Judith Pirscher, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Multilateralism in Times of Polycrises

Seoul and Online, 14. June 2023

Germany's and Korea's global priorities in the field of sustainable development are converging. This convergence offers considerable opportunities and potential for the expansion of international cooperation between the two countries. This applies in particular to the important areas of development policy and international climate…

Linking Loss and Damage to Conflict Affected and Fragile Settings

Bonn, 12. June 2023

Workshop along with the 58th sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies of the UNFCCC in Bonn. Climate change is a threat multiplier to sustainable development and even more so in fragile and conflict affected states, where the livelihoods of the most vulnerable are threatened and social inequalities increased. Come and join us at a crucial time…

Second Virtual General Assembly Meeting (VGAM) of the African Academy Alumni Network

Online, 09. June 2023

The second Virtual General Assembly Meeting (VGAM) of the African Academy Alumni Network took place on the topic of Gender Equality, SDG5. Kossi Lorimpo Adjah, 2022 Alumnus, gave a presentation on "Gender responsiveness agriculture: a tool to bridge the food insecurity gap in Africa". The alumni from 2021 and 2022 were invited. The VGAMs…

The Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals: evolving connections

Dzebo, Adis / Gabriela Iacobuţă, / Raphaëlle Beaussart (2023)
External Publications

The evolution of connections between Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda in the NDCs

Bonn, 05. June 2023

This side event explores the development of climate activities in countries’ first and updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and their relation to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The objective of the event is to showcase how countries’ NDCs have developed and to what extent they have strengthened the connection…

INTERFACES Side Event

Durban, South Africa, 05. June 2023

The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), the technical branch of the Africa Union Commission on all matters of agricultural science, technology and innovation, organised its 8th Africa Agribusiness and Science Week in Durban, South Africa from 5th to 8th June 2023. The INTERFACES side-event was opened with a presentation by…

Africa’s Right to Development in a Climate-Constrained World

Bonn, 05. June 2023

This book launch event on “ Africa’s Right to Development in a Climate-Constrained World ” presents a landmark publication in Palgrave Macmillan’s Contemporary African Political Economy series. A timely contribution to African agency in international relations, it spells out the bold perspective of a group of African scholars on how to…

Funding multilateralism: strengthening the United Nations through assessed contributions

Haug, Sebastian / Nilima Gulrajani / Silke Weinlich (2023)
External Publications

Funding “Loss and Damage”

Online, 31. May 2023

The 2nd Annual Conference on Global Climate Governance in the Face of Obstruction (31 May – 2 June 2023) , organized by the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) - a global network headquartered at Brown University in the USA, addresses some of the latest issues in climate policy, focusing on institutions and actors that block progress:…

Strengthening social cohesion in fragile and conflict-affected states

Bonn, 31. May 2023

All around the world, increasing polarization, inequalities and autocratization, among other trends, put a strain on social cohesion. In fragile and conflict-affected states, this may contribute to or trigger an escalation of violent conflict. At the same time, strengthening social cohesion can potentially help to overcome fragility,…

From Rovaniemi to Tromsø spirit?

Methi, Kirsti / Dorothea Wehrmann (2023)
The Current Column, 30. May 2023

A new Tromsø Arctic spirit is needed to co-create a democratic legitimacy and relevance of the Arctic Council with respect for the peoples and local governance structures in the Arctic region.

IDOS researcher Dr Gabriela Iacobuţă has received the dissertation prize of the Johannes-Rau-Forschungsgemeinschaft

Iacobuta, Gabriela (2023)
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Contested Mobility: Between Local Needs, National Interests, and Global Trends

Bonn, Germany, 24. May 2023

With the Agenda 2030 and the adoption of the Global Compacts for Migration and Refugees, the international community faces the challenge of implementing these global agreements at the national and local policy levels – and identifying the role of development policy therein. International agreements on migration- or refugee-related policy…

UN Global Digital Compact

Online, 24. May 2023

This September, United Nations (UN) member states will come together in New York for the SDG Summit and the Ministerial Meeting on the 2024 Summit of the Future. The 2023 SDG Summit marks the mid-point of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The 2024 Summit of the Future (SOTF) has its…